October 11, 2014
Recently, the SSL certificate used for syspeace.com, the Syspeace Licenses site as well as backend Syspeace services was reissued with a signature using the SHA-2 hash algorithm. The SHA-2 hash algorithm replaces the earlier, deprecated SHA-1 and moving forward is recommended by the CA Security Council. However, some users on Windows Server 2003 have seen […]
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A comprehensive approach to detecting RDP login failures
April 3, 2017
Syspeace’s way of detecting Windows logon failures is based on using the audit events produced by Windows. This is reliable and non-invasive, but in some cases, there are oddities. When a login succeeds or fails during Remote Desktop/Terminal Services authentication, the event is logged, but there is no reference to the IP address of the […]
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Syspeace 2.7.0 released
April 3, 2017
Syspeace 2.7.0 is a highly recommended update. It introduces improved support for detecting RDP login failures where the IP addresses are missing in the event log entries. For details, see the separate post A comprehensive approach to detecting RDP login failures. It includes a setting to mitigate repetitive “success” login entries on file servers caused […]
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Why Syspeace uses SHA-2 and important notes for Windows Server 2003 users
September 2, 2016
As of today, September 2, 2016, we have switched to using a SHA-2 SSL/TLS certificate for this web site, our Syspeace Licenses site used to manage and purchase licenses, as well as our backend server used by the Syspeace application. The SHA-2 hash algorithm is a newer and more robust hash algorithm than SHA-1, as […]
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New reseller: RECiPHER Group Australia
June 29, 2016
Syspeace welcomes its newest reseller: RECiPHER Group Australia. RECiPHER Group caters to Australia and New Zealand with regional presence and pricing. RECiPHER Group is the first Syspeace reseller in the southern hemisphere. RECiPHER Group joins four existing Syspeace resellers. For more information about Syspeace resellers and becoming a Syspeace reseller, see the Syspeace Reseller site.
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Syspeace Windows Server 2003 Support Policy
June 29, 2016
The current major release of Syspeace (2.x) will continue to be supported on Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 R2. We may introduce major new releases of Syspeace that will not run or be supported on Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 R2. Microsoft’s extended support for Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 […]
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Syspeace now offering discounts for tax-exempt nonprofit organizations
June 29, 2016
We are proud to announce that we now offer discounts to tax-exempt nonprofit organizations (for example 501(c) organizations in the US). For more information, contact us.
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Syspeace not starting due to database too large
November 22, 2015
In some scenarios, Syspeace may stop working iof the database has grown above it’s limit of 4 GB
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New resellers in Australia and Germany
September 25, 2015
Your IT Business Consultants are the newest of our seven resellers. Your IT Business Consultants Pty Ltd will provide Syspeace licenses in Australia. See all of our resellers, or read about becoming a reseller yourself.
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Syspeace, SHA-2 certificates and Windows Server 2003
October 11, 2014
Recently, the SSL certificate used for syspeace.com, the Syspeace Licenses site as well as backend Syspeace services was reissued with a signature using the SHA-2 hash algorithm. The SHA-2 hash algorithm replaces the earlier, deprecated SHA-1 and moving forward is recommended by the CA Security Council. However, some users on Windows Server 2003 have seen […]
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How to block an ongoing dictionary attack / brute force attack against Windows Servers
October 7, 2014
How to block an intrusion attack against Windows Servers for free If your server or data center is targeted by a brute force attack a.k.a dictionary attacks , it might be hard to figure out how to quickly make it stop. If the attack is from a single IP address you’d probably block it in […]
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